The British artist duo Semiconductor came to Turku for an EU-funded science and art collaboration with the Turku Quantum Technology group. They will perform at Science Café on 26th October.
The new information necessitates revising the scenarios on how the enormous species richness in Amazonia has evolved and which factors define species distributions.
Sabrina Maniscalco is the Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Turku.
What if we could create more powerful solar panels, find materials to replace rare metals in chemical industry, create lighter means of transport, or save nature? All this can be helped with the method Doctoral Candidate Henrik Levämäki has created for computational modelling of materials. The method makes the use of density functional theory more accurate than before.
Cancer induces stiffening of the surrounding tissue, which in turn accelerates the growth of the cancer cells. This creates a proliferation inducing vicious cycle. Researchers at the University of Turku have made a significant discovery which affects the direction of future cancer research.
Hannu Salmi and Craig Primmer commence their five-year term as Academy Professors at the beginning of 2017.
Adjunct professor of Biomathematics Laura Elo from University of Turku has received a grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The grant is one of the most highly competitive grants in Europe. The ERC Starter Grant is 1.5 million euros.
Valter Weijola, a researcher from the University of Turku, discovered a large rat species unknown to science from Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. Weijola’s previous discovery from another island in the same island state, reported in late February, was a new monitor lizard species.
Researchers from the University of Turku have demonstrated that photoinhibition of photosystem I, which reduces the effectiveness of photosynthesis, is actually a plant's self-defense mechanism against more extensive harm.
The rotational rate of one of the most massive black holes in the universe has now been measured very accurately by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Turku and the Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO together with an international team of astronomers. It is the first time that the rotational rate and mass of a supermassive black hole has been measured with a closer accuracy than one percent.